Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions

Dataguard

Data is like trust, it takes a life time to build, a split second to lose.

Every business uses data on a daily basis. If you lost your critical data, what would you do? If you do not have backup, chances are it would destroy your business. If you are lucky, you would gradually work your way back. Here are some facts that may interest you:

• 70% of companies go out of business after a major data loss (DTI)
• 42% of all tape restores fail (DTI)
• 61% of companies took over 1 day to recover from system failures (DTI)
• 43% of companies experiencing disasters never recover
• 90% of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to close within 2 years.

Many require time and effort to keep their data backed up on tape drives or external hard drives, because they feel it is the most secure method. Remote backup is the next generation of tape backups, and is much safer. Tapes will be phased out in exchange for remote solutions over the next couple of years for many reasons:

• Unreliable; regular problems when restoring critical data.
• Consumes Resources; tapes need manually changing (either each day or when they are full), labelling and storing by a responsible person in your office, which takes time.
• Vulnerable to theft, natural disasters and loss.
• Time consuming; it can take over an hour to wind the tape to a specific file to restore.
• Wear out; as tapes are reused they need need replacing.

With the IT Answers DataGuard service, all these issues are overcome. The backup manager software is held on your server, desktop and laptops, scheduling backups daily, weekly or periodically; and works transparently in the background. All you need is an internet connection to connect to our secure backup servers. If your connection is unavailable, a local backup is made, which is then transferred when the connection is restored.

What are the benefits?

• No Tapes!
• Cross Platform. It works with Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
• Data is not stored at the office, but in a secured, offsite location.
• Transparent to daily processes.
• Is always up to date.
• Multiple versions of your data, so you can go back in time.
• Recovering is fast and simple. No fast forwarding tapes!
• Detailed Reporting for every backup.
• No limitation on storage capacity.
• Flexible price tag. Pay only for what you use.

What makes IT Answers DataGuard special?

• Open/locked file support: Dataguard will back up your documents whether they're open or closed.
• 128-bit SSL encryption: The same technology used by banks secures your data during the backup process.
• 448-bit Blowfish encryption: Secures your files while in storage, providing peace of mind that your private data is safe from hackers.
• Automatic: Schedule the times to back up and Dataguard does the rest.
• New and changed file detection: Dataguard finds and saves the smallest changes.
• Backs up Outlook files: Disasterproof email protection.
• Block level incremental backup: After the initial backup, Dataguard only backs up files that have been added or changed, making subsequent backups lightning fast.

Data is encrypted and compressed before being uploaded and stored on the Backup Server. To further assure your data safety, backups are replicated to a server located at a second secure location.

Moreover, the data synchronization is close to real time. By having offsite copies, your businesses can be protected from fires, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, wars, etc.

Take the Tour

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Continuous Backup	Encryption of Data	Backing-Up Outlook

What to do next?

If you are interested in our DataGuard service then please feel free to call us on 0871 200 2446 and we will be happy to demonstrate the system to you and provide a free 30-day trial. Alternatively you can e-mail us on letschat@itanswers.biz or use our website contact form which you can access here.